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Be it known that I, SAMUEL P. FORGY, of the town of Allensville, inthe county of Todd, and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Method of Preventing theEntrance ofMoth or other Insects into Bee-Hives; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the same,irei'erence'being had to the accom i marked thereon, making a part ot' this specification,

The nature of' my invention consists in providing a transparent shield or plate in a frame or box. to be inserted or suspended ontpivots, (marked,) box 1, pivots 2 2, inthe accompanying drawing.

The plate in the box or frame, which may be inserted in any description of a hive, is so adjusted as to perfectly close the entranceo the hive, restingl as an inclined plane at or about an angle of forty-five degrees, and in such way and manner that when the bee approaches,'it balances the plate, which produces an aperture or opening int ing the light, raises the transparent shield o'r plate, `the aperture perfectly, and preventing the entrance of' moth or other insects in'to the hive.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The application, to the box or frame, of the self-adjusting transparent light on pivots, or proper time, allow the bee both ingress and egress, as herein described, using parent substance which will produce the intended ei'ect.

o the hive, and on passing ont, the bee, on approachwhich will, at a given for that purpose any trans- S. P. FORGY.

Witnesses:

S. T. FORTUNE, W. M. THOMAS.

panying drawings, and to the lettersof reference passes up this inclined plane, when its own weight'l and passes under it, when it at once adjusts itself, closing Y 

